Delta Waterfowl

analyzed sixty years of data collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to examine possible links between climate change and shifts in the timing of duck migrations in the United States. Request your free copy of the 24-page report here.

 The next webinar produced in the Safeguarding Wildlife from Climate Change series will present a case study from Arizona: Implementing Regional Adaptation Strategies: Ecological Assessment and Restoration of Springs in the Sky Island region. Registration for the webinar Wednesday, May 15, 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern is required. The series is presented through a partnership between the National Wildlife Federation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Worldwide, 2012 has been remarkable for extreme weather events. The World Resources Institute has put together an interactive timeline highlighting 36 stories from the first eight months of this year that exemplify unusual conditions linked to climate change.

Tracking more than 125 years of temperature changes throughout the world, this 26-second animated graphic from NASA illustrates Earth's dramatic warming in since the beginning of the "modern record" in 1880. In 2011, the Earth's average temperature was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline.
The warming trend of the past 10 years exceeds the localized, temporary heat waves of previous decades.